Overview

The Magic of Middle School Musicals: Inspire Your Students to Learn, Grow, and Succeed

Working on a musical is exciting for students, teachers, and the entire middle school community! As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musicals provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bobetsky approaches planning and producing musicals in the context of a curricular unit of study and includes strategies for assessing student learning. Dr. Victor V. Bobetsky, a former New York City middle school music teacher, begins with advice on how to select a musical, obtain copyright permission, and arrange the music for middle school voices. He discusses strategies for teaching the music in the choral classroom, auditioning, casting, and rehearsal procedures. Practical suggestions show directors how to work with student actors, create choreography, and manage scenery, set design, costumes, lighting, and more. The Magic of Middle School Musicals gives music teachers the information and confidence they need to artistically adapt musicals from the American repertoire to the middle school level so that teachers, students, and audiences can experience and enjoy this unique, familiar, and musically expressive genre!

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Bobetsky's guide to planning and producing a middle school musical belongs in the library of every music, drama, and English teacher.

Nancy Shankman

Victor Bobetsky has written an incredibly important book about producing a musical in your school. In an age of budget cuts, scheduling challenges, advocacy issues, and lack of teachers, he lays out clear and concise strategies for every director to succeed at producing a musical the first time through.

Anthony Mazzocchi

Dr. Bobetsky's understanding of middle school singers with unchanged and changing voices enables him to offer important pointers to assist teachers when choosing and writing music for their students.

Don L. Collins

Dr. Bobetsky provides a fresh approach to curriculum integration without compromising the core elements of music or arts education. This comprehensive, standards-based resource provides a wealth of ideas that are practical and easy to implement regardless of your program's size or scope.